The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-07-08
Echoes of the Tennessee Cam.
paign.
From the indianapolis ournal.

From the indianapolis journal.
! "The late Tennessee Gubernatorial
campaign was a family affair through
out and roaring farce withal," said
u southern senator recently. "The
democrats nominated Bob Taylor.
Then the republicans determined TO
match that with another, and from
the same family, and therefore, they
pitched on AlfTaylor as theirnominee.
ALI and Bob stumped and iiddled the
state together When they got into
the mountain counties OF East Ten
nessee. All felt that he had the bulge
on Bob there, for those counties are
nearly all strongly Republican, and
he sailed in TO just lay Robert out on
the cooling board. In order to cap
ture the mountaineers the more
efIectually, he resorted to the native
lingo, and the way he thus waded in
to the affections OF his hilltop audi
tors was just surprising. Nothing
daunted, Robert followed suit, ana
essayed to 90 one more than All had
put up. TO do that he announced in
all his East Tennessee speeches that
il any OF you burned galoots find a
big. belied, jud out thar in the dog
kennel, with corncob stopper in 1t,
list wade in and take yer everlasting
| I'LL OF the true sperrit OF Jacksonian
Democracy This captured the
crowd. The speakers stand became
u silent waste within five minutes,
and everybody took to the dog kennel.
"Now, ALI is known to be IL very sly
young man, while Bob is OF more
frank and open nature. ALI had kept
his eye on brother Bob, and when he
saw him breaking for the kennel and
taller weeds and bushes he knew that
some sort OF q game to win the hearts
of the mountaineers was afoot. SO
he slipped around on Roberts flank
and was rewarded by first seeing him
take n laundering big swig out OF q
corpulent jug, and then tuck 1t deity
away among the reeds. He at once
slipped away and hired darkey who
lived near to run home and bring HIM
q bucket OF buttermilk aud an empty
jug about as big as Bob's. He first
empti d the contents of Bob's into
his own jug, and then filled Bob.'s
plumb full OF buttermilk. Alter tax.
ing hearty swig he, too, slipped
away, carrying Bob's whiskey with
him. The first man who found Bob's
jug, after his generous invitation, was
a big, six loot, raw and gaunt mount
aineer He pulled out the cob with
o 'whoop,' turned the jug almost bot
tom up, and let about a pint OF the
acidulous contents tumble down his
throat. His look was one OF calm
peacefulness while elevating the jug,
which was soon followed by an ex-
preston of intense surprise and huge
disgust. followed by an aspect offiam-
ing and red-hot Indignation. He
dropped the Jug as ii it was red hot,
Jumped about five feet into the air,
and yelled out: bod burn his onery
hide! Jest let me clap my later dig
gers onto himl' and OF he started for
the stand. The next one to sample
Bob's whiskey tainted. and soon the
excitement spread all through the
crowd.
"Soon Bob arose to make the clos
ing speech, DuI was rcCeiNct WIN ye"S
and excavations, in which Butter
MILK The fraudl' and 'Hooray for
ALI TAYLOR took the leading parts.
Bob looked things unutterable at All,
who met his gaze with face mantled
over with an expression OF happy IN
nocence. Then Dob tried to pacify
his former friends, but 1T was no 90.
a few OF the old iron.clad ccnfederates
still stuck to him, but the other hall
voted straight out for ALI. and don't
care dod-ding who knows it. as one
OF them expressed it. And now the
democracy OF East Tennessee are di-
vided into two warning factions known
as 'Buttermi!ksrs aand Anti-Butter-
mixers"